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Central America

On the Road with Barbara Hines: UT Students Visit Karnes Family Detention Facility

August 28, 2017

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT BY SUSANNA SHARPE It’s 7:30 on a Saturday morning. Barbara Hines has parked a large white van outside the law school at The University of Texas at Austin. Inside a small hallway of the school, a slightly sleepy group of students begins to assemble. Some are law students, … [Read more...] about On the Road with Barbara Hines: UT Students Visit Karnes Family Detention Facility

Tagged With: Barbara Hines, Central America, Family detention, Human Rights, Immigration, Texas Law

Derechos en Crisis: A Conference at the Frontier of Activism and Scholarship

August 5, 2016

BY RUTH ELIZABETH VELÁSQUEZ ESTRADA We became conscious of the right to have rights and of the right to belong to an organized community only when millions of people had lost their rights, and could no longer recuperate them.     —Agustín Estrada Negrete, political asylee and immigrant rights … [Read more...] about Derechos en Crisis: A Conference at the Frontier of Activism and Scholarship

Tagged With: Central America, Human Rights, Immigration, Lozano Long Conference, migrants, neoliberalism, refugees, Student Research, Velásquez Estrada

Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

August 5, 2016

BY THERESA E. POLK Guatemala’s internal armed conflict was brutal by all accounts, and justice for human rights violations has been notoriously difficult to attain in its wake. Yet there have also been some critical milestones, including convictions in 2010 for the forced disappearance of labor … [Read more...] about Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

Tagged With: archiving, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora, Central America, Human Rights, post-custodial archives, Theresa Polk

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